Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
VIKTOR FRANKLThe point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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